ISBN:
0520270908
,
9780520270909
Language:
English
Pages:
XXII, 256 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Asia: local studies/global themes 21
Series Statement:
Asia
DDC:
306.740952
Keywords:
Prostitution History
;
Prostitutes Social conditions
;
Women Sexual behavior
;
History
;
Sex History
;
Prostitution
;
Japan
;
History
;
Prostitutes
;
Japan
;
Social conditions
;
Women
;
Sexual behavior
;
Japan
;
History
;
Sex
;
Japan
;
History
;
Japan
;
Frau
;
Prostitution
;
Soziale Situation
;
Geschichte 1600-1875
Abstract:
Adulterous prostitutes, pawned wives, and purchased women: female bodies as currency -- Creating "prostitutes": benevolence, profit, and the construction of a gendered order -- Negotiating the gendered order: prostitutes as daughters, wives, and mothers -- From household to market: child-sellers, "widows," and other shameless people -- Glittering hair ornaments and barren fields: prostitution and the crisis of the countryside -- Tora and the "rules of the pleasure quarter" -- Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
Adulterous prostitutes, pawned wives, and purchased women: female bodies as currency -- Creating "prostitutes": benevolence, profit, and the construction of a gendered order -- Negotiating the gendered order: prostitutes as daughters, wives, and mothers -- From household to market: child-sellers, "widows," and other shameless people -- Glittering hair ornaments and barren fields: prostitution and the crisis of the countryside -- Tora and the "rules of the pleasure quarter" -- Conclusion.
Note:
Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-242) and index. - Adulterous prostitutes, pawned wives, and purchased women: female bodies as currency -- Creating "prostitutes": benevolence, profit, and the construction of a gendered order -- Negotiating the gendered order: prostitutes as daughters, wives, and mothers -- From household to market: child-sellers, "widows," and other shameless people -- Glittering hair ornaments and barren fields: prostitution and the crisis of the countryside -- Tora and the "rules of the pleasure quarter" -- Conclusion
